LDS Professor Speaks Out Against Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment
by Jeff Robinson
KCPW News
(KCPW News) Westminster College professor Jeffrey Nielsen lost his previous teaching job at BYU for criticizing the LDS Church over its opposition to gay marriage, but he's not letting that deter him from speaking out again. After church leaders urged California Mormons last weekend to support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, Nielsen wrote his own open letter to them, encouraging them not to support the amendment.
"We can't just say, this is our religious faith, so it should become civil law, but we have to appeal to broader, general moral principles, and I just have to ask myself, what is the moral principle you could appeal to that would discriminate another person, against a gay or lesbian, against a woman, or against a person of color? I don't think there is one," he said.
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KCPW News
(KCPW News) Westminster College professor Jeffrey Nielsen lost his previous teaching job at BYU for criticizing the LDS Church over its opposition to gay marriage, but he's not letting that deter him from speaking out again. After church leaders urged California Mormons last weekend to support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, Nielsen wrote his own open letter to them, encouraging them not to support the amendment.
"We can't just say, this is our religious faith, so it should become civil law, but we have to appeal to broader, general moral principles, and I just have to ask myself, what is the moral principle you could appeal to that would discriminate another person, against a gay or lesbian, against a woman, or against a person of color? I don't think there is one," he said.
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